Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charged that she had moved to Reno to "perpetrate a fraud on the New Jersey and Nevada courts"-that is, not to become a Nevadan but just to become an exwife...
Earl Browder, No. 1 U.S. Communist, brought a libel suit against the Philadelphia Record, which had called him a "convicted perjurer." Convicted three years ago of obtaining a passport by misrepresentation and fraud, he demanded $100,000 damages, as a "person of good fame, name, credit and reputation...
...Epaphroditus Peck, export salesman for Chauncey Jerome, another pioneering clockmaker, taught the English an early lesson in Yankee underselling. British customs authorities seized his first shipment of clocks because they were invoiced at such a low price that it looked like fraud. Under British law, Mr. Peck received the amount of his invoice plus 10%, and the British Government sold his clocks while he settled comfortably in London to wait for another shipment. The British bit a second time, but by the time they gave up and let in his third shipment in orthodox fashion, the Jerome trade-mark...
Franklin Roosevelt lay abed, battling the grippe. But the new Jap puppet Government in the Philippines (TIME, Oct. 25) raised his temperature higher than the grippe's mild fever. Said he: "A hypocritical appeal for American sympathy. . . . Fraud and deceit . . . designed to confuse and mislead the Filipino people...
This brisk bit of skulduggery permits antisocial Painter Farll to assume his valet's name and begin a new life as a starving artist. The arrangement works well until 1) the valet's wife (Una O'Connor) and family turn up and denounce the fraud; 2) an art dealer is accused of selling forged Farlls...